House Bill No. 6818
House Bill No. 6818
PUBLIC ACT NO. 97-226
AN ACT CONCERNING THE FEES FOR CONFISCATION OF
MOTOR VEHICLE NUMBER PLATES, ENABLING ENFORCEMENT
OF INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS AGAINST OWNERS OF MOTOR
VEHICLES REQUIRED TO BE REGISTERED IN THIS STATE
AND CONCERNING STOLEN OR MUTILATED MOTOR VEHICLE
NUMBER PLATES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 14-12h of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(c) The owner of any motor vehicle whose
registration has been cancelled in accordance with
the provisions of sections 14-12c and 14-12f to
14-12k, inclusive, 38a-343 and 38a-343a, shall not
be eligible to obtain a new registration for a
vehicle, or a new or renewal registration for any
motor vehicle in his name until such owner appears
personally at an office of the Department of Motor
Vehicles and (1) completes an application for
registration, (2) furnishes proof of insurance, in
accordance with section 14-12b, (3) furnishes
proof of financial responsibility for not less
than one year, in accordance with section 14-112,
and (4) pays to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
a restoration fee of one hundred dollars, as
required by section 14-50b, in addition to any
other fees required to obtain new registration and
number plates. In addition, if the number plates
of the vehicle whose registration was cancelled
has been confiscated, the owner of such motor
vehicle shall pay an additional confiscation fee
of fifty dollars. Such confiscation fee shall be
collected from the owner of the motor vehicle and
remitted by the commissioner to the sheriff,
deputy sheriff or constable who confiscated the
number plates or, if the plates were confiscated
by a police officer, such confiscation fee shall
be remitted to the governmental entity which
employed such officer at the time of the
confiscation AND SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE ASSET
FORFEITURE FUND. IN THE EVENT THERE IS NO SUCH
FUND, SUCH CONFISCATION FEE SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN
THE GENERAL FUND OF SUCH ENTITY.
Sec. 2. Section 14-213b of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) No owner of any private passenger motor
vehicle or a vehicle with a COMBINATION OR
commercial registration, as defined in
[subdivision (12) of] section 14-1, registered OR
REQUIRED TO BE REGISTERED in this state may
operate or permit the operation of such vehicle
without the security required by section 38a-371
or with security insufficient to meet the minimum
requirements of said section. Failure of the
operator to produce an insurance identification
card as required by section 14-217 shall
constitute prima facie evidence that the owner has
not maintained the security required by section
38a-371 and this section.
(b) Any person convicted of violating any
provision of subsection (a) of this section shall
be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than one thousand dollars.
(c) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall
suspend the registration, and the operator's
license, if any, of an owner, for a first
conviction of violating the provisions of
subsection (a) of this section for a period of one
month and for a second or subsequent conviction
for a period of six months. No new registration
shall be issued or restored for any private
passenger motor vehicle or a vehicle with a
COMBINATION OR commercial registration, as defined
in [subdivision (12) of] section 14-1, the
registration for which has been suspended pursuant
to this subsection until the owner has filed proof
of financial responsibility in accordance with
section 14-112. Any financial responsibility
filing shall be maintained for a period of three
years unless waived by the commissioner after one
year has elapsed, or unless such registration for
such motor vehicle has been cancelled or the
commissioner is satisfied that a transfer of the
private passenger motor vehicle has been made in
good faith and not for the purpose of or with the
effect of circumventing the intention of sections
14-12b and 14-12c. NO OPERATOR'S LICENSE WHICH HAS
BEEN SUSPENDED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION SHALL
BE RESTORED UNTIL THE OWNER HAS PROVIDED EVIDENCE
TO THE COMMISSIONER THAT HE MAINTAINS THE SECURITY
REQUIRED BY SECTION 38a-371 FOR EACH MOTOR VEHICLE
REGISTERED IN HIS NAME.
Sec. 3. Subsection (w) of section 14-49 of the
general statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(w) In addition to the fee established for the
issuance of motor vehicle number plates and except
as provided in subsection (a) of section 14-21b
and subsection [(b)] (c) of section 14-253a there
shall be an additional safety fee of five dollars
charged at the time of issuance of any
reflectorized safety number plate or set of
plates. All moneys derived from said safety fee
shall be deposited in the General Fund. THE
COMMISSIONER MAY WAIVE SAID SAFETY FEE IN THE CASE
OF ANY PERSON WHO SUBMITS A POLICE REPORT TO THE
COMMISSIONER INDICATING THAT THE NUMBER PLATE OR
SET OF NUMBER PLATES HAVE BEEN STOLEN OR MUTILATED
FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING THE STICKER ATTACHED
TO THE PLATE DENOTING THE EXPIRATION DATE OF THE
REGISTRATION.
Sec. 4. Section 14-50a of the general statutes
is repealed and the following is substituted in
lieu thereof:
(a) The following fees shall be charged by the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for the item or
service indicated:
(1) Duplicate of a registration certificate,
five dollars.
(2) First duplicate of a motor vehicle
operator's license, ten dollars, second duplicate
of a motor vehicle operator's license, twenty
dollars and each duplicate of a motor vehicle
operator's license thereafter, thirty dollars.
(3) Replacement number plate or set of number
plates, except as provided in subsection [(b)] (c)
of section 14-253a, [ten] ELEVEN dollars. [On and
after July 1, 1992, the fee shall be eleven
dollars.]
(4) Replacement number plate or set of number
plates bearing same number as set of replaced
plates, [ten] ELEVEN dollars. [On and after July
1, 1992, the fee shall be eleven dollars.]
(5) Each search of the accident record files
made pursuant to a request for a copy of an
accident report which results in no document being
produced, [four dollars and fifty cents, on and
after July 1, 1989, six dollars and seventy-five
cents, on and after July 1, 1991, eight dollars
and fifty cents, and on and after July 1, 1993,]
ten dollars and seventy-five cents.
(6) Each copy of an accident report, [four
dollars and fifty cents, on and after July 1,
1989, six dollars and seventy-five cents, on and
after July 1, 1991, eight dollars and fifty cents,
and on and after July 1, 1993,] ten dollars and
seventy-five cents.
(7) Certified copy of an accident record, [six
dollars, on and after July 1, 1989, nine dollars,
on and after July 1, 1991, eleven dollars and
twenty-five cents, and on and after July 1, 1993,]
fourteen dollars.
(8) Certified statement of "no record of
accident", [six dollars, on and after July 1,
1989, nine dollars, on and after July 1, 1991,
eleven dollars and twenty-five cents, and on and
after July 1, 1993,] fourteen dollars.
(9) Certified abstract of driving history
record, or driving history record for applicants
for commercial driver's license with passenger
endorsement or transportation permit, ten dollars.
(10) Name of registered owner, four dollars
and fifty cents.
(11) Operator license information, five
dollars and fifty cents.
(12) Certification of any copy or record, [one
dollar and fifty cents, on and after July 1, 1989,
two dollars and twenty-five cents, on and after
July 1, 1991, three dollars, and on and after July
1, 1993,] three dollars and fifty cents.
(13) Certified transcripts of hearing held by
the commissioner, [one dollar and fifty cents per
page with a minimum charge of seven dollars and
fifty cents. On and after July 1, 1989, the fee
per page shall be two dollars and twenty-five
cents per page with a minimum charge of eleven
dollars and twenty-five cents, on and after July
1, 1991, three dollars per page with a minimum
charge of fourteen dollars, and on and after July
1, 1993,] three dollars and fifty cents per page
with a minimum charge of seventeen dollars and
fifty cents.
(14) Each copy of a motor vehicle operator's
completed application for a license, seven
dollars.
(15) Each copy of a completed application for
registration of a motor vehicle, seven dollars.
(16) Each copy of a title document provided to
a municipality, ten dollars.
(17) Each request for information as provided
in section 14-10, the amount provided in said
section.
(18) For any copy or material released from
information maintained by the Department of Motor
Vehicles for which no fee is established by
statute, an amount determined by the commissioner.
(b) The commissioner may establish fees not
conforming to those of subsection (a) of this
section for information furnished on a volume
basis to persons or firms who satisfy the
commissioner that the information furnished is
properly required in connection with the conduct
of such person's or firm's business.
(c) THE COMMISSIONER MAY WAIVE ANY FEE
SPECIFIED IN SUBDIVISION (3) OR (4) OF SUBSECTION
(a) OF THIS SECTION IN THE CASE OF ANY PERSON WHO
SUBMITS A POLICE REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER
INDICATING THAT THE NUMBER PLATE OR SET OF NUMBER
PLATES HAVE BEEN STOLEN OR MUTILATED FOR THE
PURPOSE OF OBTAINING THE STICKER ATTACHED TO THE
PLATE DENOTING THE EXPIRATION DATE OF THE
REGISTRATION.
[(c)] (d) No person, firm or corporation
furnished information by the commissioner as
provided by this section shall distribute such
information for any other purpose than that for
which it was furnished.
[(d)] (e) Any person, firm or corporation
which violates any provision of this section shall
be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
Sec. 5. Section 14-147a of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
Any person who takes any motor vehicle number
plate or [annual insert] STICKER DENOTING THE
EXPIRATION DATE OF THE REGISTRATION from such
number plate OR POSSESSES SUCH NUMBER PLATE OR
STICKER without the permission of the person to
whom such number plate or [annual insert] STICKER
was issued shall be fined not [more than
twenty-five dollars or imprisoned not more than
thirty days or both] LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED NOR
MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect July 1,
1997, except that sections 1 and 2 shall take
effect October 1, 1997.
Approved June 24, 1997